New World: Aeternum on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Experience a thrilling action RPG set on the supernatural island of Aeternum. Forge your destiny on an adventure filled with danger and opportunity.
New World: Aeternum is a open world, massively multiplayer and mmorpg game
developed and published by Amazon Games.
Released on September 28th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 8 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil and Spanish - Latin America.
It has received 286,878 reviews of which 196,798 were positive and 90,080 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.8 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 40.70€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 64-bit
- Processor: Intel® Core i5-10500 @ 3.10GHz / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 3 GB / AMD Radeon RX 590
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 100 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Additional Notes: Internet connection required to play, offers in-game purchases. PC specifications for New World: Aeternum may continue to evolve over time.
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Pros: The game is fun. It has a little of everything; exploring different regions with different biomes, different enemy types and factions to fight, a lot of different weapon types (sword & board, flail, magic staff, bows, musket, spear,) that can be customized with skill points to suit how you want to use them. New World is situated on a very large island that could be considered a small continent. There are a lot of different regions, or zones, that are broken up by level. The starting area is level 1 -17 and then you progress to other higher areas depending on quests you take or just your preference. One thing I like is there are no hard transition portals like Everquest, WoW, or Guild Wars 2. You can run (or ride when you get a mount at level 20*) from one end of the island to the other and never encounter a spot where you have to wait for the new zone to load in. Spirit Shrines are fast-travel teleporters and you will encounter load time when you use them. That is expected and normal. You can carry several weapons in your inventory and have two at the ready at all times. So you could have a musket for long range pulling and a sword and board for close in tanking, You could also go DPS with a fast hatchet, or magic with fire staff, heal with a life staff, or chill with an ice gauntlet. There are different classes of armor as well: light, medium, and heavy. Each class has different skills such as dodging and rolling like an acrobat in light armor while only being able to jump back a bit in heavy armor. Heavy armor of course offers a lot more physical protection so you can take a beating. There are typical trinity roles of tank, DPS, and healer, but each class can solo on it's own with various weapons, buff foods, and consumable potions. You can level up going solo but of course it is much faster with a friend. The in game community is friendly and helpful and you will often get help just by asking in global chat. I have several friends that regularly join me to do quests and I have met many more friends in game. There are various skills to master including gathering, skinning, mining, fishing, cooking, weapon and armor crafting, and arcane magic. There is a main story quest line, faction quests, town community quests and quests out in the wild. Every 10 or 20 levels there is an dungeon, called expeditions here, for you to go in with a group. There are a lot of challenges to accomplish and a continual activity card to complete doing different activities like catch 150 pounds of fish. or 3 rare fish. The challenges and activity cards unlock progress on the season pass where you'll get extra crafting mats, in game money, or new skins. There is an OPTIONAL paid for season pass under the normal free season pass that offers more rewards for your progress. This is also typical in other MMOs. Your choice to pay for the extra stuff. You can buy and own up to three houses in various regions using in game gold (not real money). Each house can be decorated with furniture and act as a free recall point. They can also be decorated with trophies to give you permanent world buffs, and increase your settlement storage amount. Each settlement has a storage box you can dump your crafting materials into. All of the storage boxes are linked so you can access all of them from any settlement. There are a lot of fast travel shrines so you can get around the explored map very fast. You have to discover and unlock a fast travel shrine before you can use it so there is a lot of ground travel in the early game unlocking shrines. There ARE mounts. If you have the version of New World prior to Oct 2024, you will need to buy the Angry Earth DLC to get access to mounts. In Oct 24, The base game and DLC were combined into New World: Aeternum, and the price was increased to take into consideration the merge. The Aeternum update also changed the First Light starter area into a end game 60-65 area, raised the player level cap from 60 to 65, increased crafting level to 250, gear score to 700, introduced the Flail weapon, and new recipes, resources, monsters, quests, and the Savage Divide experdition. The DLC is well worth the price. PvP IS OPTIONAL! You have to manually flag yourself for PvP while you are in a settlement or at a Spirit Shrine. And PvP isn't that bad anyway. I do open world PvP quests all the time and don't get ganked. Most of the PvP fighting is done at forts that are battles to change which faction controls the region. If you like PvP the wars to control the different zones are where you'll go to fight one of other factions. Wars are declared in advance so you know when to show up to attack and defend. Whoever controls the fort controls the region. If your faction control the region you get additional buffs. And you can do town quests to build up the various crafting stations from Tier I to Tier V. Cuttless Keys, another starter area, was changed to a high level open PvP area. There are still two distinct starter areas close to each other and you'll move out of them before you know it. For PvE there are invasions where you defend against huge hordes of monsters. This also takes place at the forts and is usually coordinated by experienced leaders. Con: The inventory system needs improved. In order to search for something to craft with you have to either remember which settlement it is stored at (or keep a list), or search through twenty different storage boxes to find what you need. It's a pain but manageable with a written list of where you stored everything. The search routine needs to be able to search all settlement boxes, AT THE SAME TIME, for what you are looking for. There are hundreds and hundreds of different things to gather, store, and use for crafting. CON: Some items for sale in the auction houses are over inflated . This is typical in any MMO. The remedy is to just learn crafting and make the items yourself, and go out and collect the materials to save a bunch of gold. All in all it has a lot of the good from previous MMOs and little of the bad. I've played alot of different MMOs starting from Meridian 59, Everquest, WoW, Guildwars 2, etc. and New World is my favorite of them all.
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The new gameplay and lore is much better than before, but locking the DLC from old players, that bought the game for 60€ is just BS! New players can just buy the new edition for the same price and they receive everything, yet the ones who have been around since the beggining were cut aside from the newest contents. And for what I read and seen, it's not even worth the extra 30€.. I'm just gonna upvote it because I like the game in itself, but I don't approve this kind of disregard for player community
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This game still has some things to improve but in general I had and still have some fun with it. The combat is one of the most fun of all the MMORPG I have ever played. Sometimes I just wanna chill and gather/farm resources while listening some music and this game allows me to do it to relax and chill. Most people complain about the Endgame, and indeed it deserves more love. But, I started playing it on release,it took me months to get to max level, and without any good build. I didn't rush to endgame, I enjoyed the game and honestly there are some content that I haven't even tried yet, like mutations and some Dungeons,several quests, and this alone gave me at least 500 hours of fun. This was my choice of how I'd play the game, my suggestion is try to find yours.
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I got 582 hours of some of the most fun i have had in an MMO. Playing solo or with some pals its just fun man. I get the negative comments about endgame, but 582hrs for £50, is good in my books. Play it, enjoy it, have fun and when you finish everything, its okay to go and play something else, trust me, its ok. There is a lot to do here as a new player now, you will get the hours out of it, and you will enjoy it.
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Signing up for the beta I see all the mixed reviews. When the game first launched, I had fun getting through all the content and the journey from early to end game was a lot of fun. The content dried up at the end but since the game didn't charge me a subscription fee, I could come and go as I please without feeling like I missed out. I think this is the best we've seen for action combat in an mmorpg and the crafting grind kept me entertained. Sure there were a lot of bots and bugs and the servers started dying, but I put enough hours into it and kept coming back. With the next major release and cross play with consoles, i'm hoping the game does well and I have a reason to come back and do it again.
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New World: Aeternum is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
New World: Aeternum is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 59.99€ on Steam.
New World: Aeternum received 196,798 positive votes out of a total of 286,878 achieving a rating of 6.82.
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New World: Aeternum was developed and published by Amazon Games.
New World: Aeternum is playable and fully supported on Windows.
New World: Aeternum is not playable on MacOS.
New World: Aeternum is not playable on Linux.
New World: Aeternum is a multi-player game.
New World: Aeternum features PvP mode where you can test your skills against other players.
There is a DLC available for New World: Aeternum. Explore additional content available for New World: Aeternum on Steam.
New World: Aeternum does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
New World: Aeternum does not support Steam Remote Play.
New World: Aeternum does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.
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Developer
Amazon Games
Publisher
Amazon Games
Release
28 Sep 2021
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